Many Administrative institutions obligatorily consult this council in order to commence proceedings that concern the Valencia cultural heritage. But is also consulted in a non-obligatory way by these same institutions, and its recommendations can be communicated by their own inititative or by assuming the claims of entities or individual citizens.

Thus, they act based on the reports and opinions (requested by the Administrations) and the unrequested reports, issued in the form of recommendations, are all prepared by their permanent information comittees or by regular written reports that are approved and accepted by the full assembly of the institution. The Valencia Council of Culture's public activities are also focused on the organization of informative forums related to various aspects of Valencia culture, their educational publications, and research assistance.

The founding of the Valencia Council of Culture is contained in article 25 of the Autonomy Statute (Estatut d'Autonomia) for the Valencia Region (Comunitat Valenciana), Constitutional Law of 1982, which declares that "a law from the Valencia Regional Assembly (Corts Valencianes) will establish the functions, composition, and the organization of the Council of Culture, whose members will be elected by a two-thirds majority of the Valencia Regional Assembly".

However, three years later on the 30th of october 1985, when the Valencia Regional Assembly approved the Law governing the creation of the Valencia Council of Culture, it became a part of the group of institutions that constitute the Valencia Regional Government.

There are no precedents in the Valencia statutory history for an advisory organization for culture. The consultation references must be searched for in the state territory and in the other regional governments: the State Council (Consell d'Estat), Canary Islands Consultation Council (Consell Consultiu de Canàries), the ones in the Balearic Islands and in Andalusia, etc. but none exist for the culture; there is only one that is similar in Galicia: The Academy of Galician Culture.

The institution's first provisional headquarters were located in the Regional Council of Culture and Education (Conselleria de Cultura i Educació); the second, also provisional, was inside the Records offices of the Valencia Regional Government; and the third and definitive headquarters are now located in the Palau de Forcalló (Forcalló Palace), calle Museo nº3 in Valencia.

Despite the fact that the Council of Culture headquarters are located in the city of Valencia, the institution has held sessions in many Valencian Municipal centres: Castelló de la Plana, Alacant, Morella, Elx, Vilafamés, Peníscola, Xàtiva, Monòver, Oriola, etc.

The first members were appointed for a six-year term, by the decree 50/1985. The first renewals for ten of its members took place three years later, and eleven were appointed in the second renewal, thus these rotating terms of office have continued in the successive renewals.